Motorcycle Touring and Rallies
This section features motorcycle rallies and clubs, travel features, tour reviews and Favorite Rides. Here, it’s all about the ride and the destination often comes too quick.

Mount St. Helens still looms large on the Cascade Range.
Western Washington serves up miles of great two-lane roads. Huge mountains, dense forests and rugged seascapes provide vivid scenery while sweepers and twisties speak to sport-touring riders in the language of speed and motion. This route of roughly... Read more »

Riders work to enhance their skills in an environment free of the dangers and distractions present on public roads. (Photography by Arcy Kusari)
When I get on a motorcycle I want to ride far, preferably somewhere I haven’t been before. The idea of repeating the same 1.7 miles over and over never really... Read more »

Jake, Jerry and the group on the way up Sonora Pass.
Our ride with the Sacramento Road Cruisers today starts in Folsom, California, and heads out of town via Latrobe Road through rural Sacramento County, past cattle ranches and oak woodlands. From there, State Route 49 take us south, twisting and turning... Read more »

Savoring blue skies and empty roads on Norway’s western coast. (Photos by Greg Drevenstedt)
First came bone-chilling rain. Then came strong, erratic wind, followed by thick fog that swallowed our conga line of BMWs as we chugged our way up the steep, rough, single-lane road to Vestkapp.
Knuckles white,... Read more »

A new Indian Chief Vintage at the Dakotah Vineyards in Chiefland, Florida.
Enjoying a motorcycle ride through Florida is an exercise in skillful navigation. The highways around Orlando and Tampa, and from West Palm Beach to Miami are crowded and crazy with traffic, so the challenge for a rider is to... Read more »

As brutal and naked as a set of brass knuckles, the Cleveland 4 was capable of hitting 108 mph—in 1929. Now, it cries tears of oil into tin pie plates.
The prairie states are filled with automobile collections calling themselves museums and debris-filled barns devoted to ancient farm implements. There... Read more »

Green grass, white tents, sunny weather, good food and several hundred cool bikes make for a great day. (Photos by Clement Salvadori)
Somebody at the The Quail has a secure line to the weather gods. May 17th was a beautiful day in California’s Carmel Valley, as it has been for the previous five Gatherings.... Read more »

Had this picture been taken 40 years ago the mix of bikes would have been similar. As with much of America, Honda was the dominant make in our town. (Photos by Frederick Tressler)
It had been a long, brutal winter in Northwest Indiana, and while I’m not much for group rides, I’d been looking forward... Read more »

“Gimme an N!” Happy Campers assemble for the group photo, the traditional last event of the annual International Norton Owners Association Rally. (Photos by Margie Siegal and Barry Hathaway)
Ka-chunk (pause) Ka-chunk Ka-chunk. I am sitting at the picnic table in a campsite under the pines, but the... Read more »

The Devil reminds us to pay strick attention when riding his Triangle; the late-winter bare trees gave excellent visibility. (Photos by Clement Salvadori and Scott Cochran)
A sweeping 180-degree turn curved upward into the hills of Frozen Head State Park, and our guides, from the local Harley shop, were... Read more »

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